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SANSON, NICOLAS (1600-1667) , French cartographer, wrongly termed by some the creator of French geography, was born of an old Picardy family of Scottish descent, at Abbeville, on the 20th (Or 31st) of December 1600, and was educated by the Jesuits
great
Conde . He died at Paris on the 7th of July 1667. Two younger sons, Adrien (d. 1708) and Guillaume (d. 1703), succeeded him as geographers to the king.Sanson's principal
Philippi
' The Aryabhaflya, edited by H. Kern
2 The Brihat-samhitei and Yogayatra, edited and translated by H. Kern
' A translation
treatises
work
Colebrooke
Memoires, vols. xiii. and xx.; the 18th-century editions of some of Sanson's works on Delamarche under the titles of Atlas de geographie ancienne and Atlas britannique; and the Catalogue des cartes et livres de geographie de Sanson (1702). End of Article: SANSON, NICOLAS (1600-1667) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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